I agree we should develop all economically viable sources of energy; however, I see no one advocating using Buffalo chips as an alternative power source and pouring billions into chip factories to refine chips. Why? Because regardless of how many billons you pour in you would not get any return on your investment. The same is true of most of the green energy initiatives. They may make you feel good but they just waste money. Wind power and bio fuels are a case in point. They do not return as much as they cost to build/ refine and operate. Getting power from them is the same as getting power by burning the money itself.
You want to quickly influence our dependence on foreign fuels Drill in the USA for Oil / Gas and build refineries.
Long term build Nuclear power generation facilities
Longer term finance research into Fusion power generation and energy cells.

H. Evers

Right, I definitely meant the free market version of “all of the above energy policy” of which flows best with the least government interference.

Time magazine a good source? Really? That pack of big government statists? They have nothing good ever to say about businesses, unless the business gives something away for free.

Truly a bad day for the alternative energy crowd.

First you have assertions that “Global Warming” is happening shown to be based on distortions and outright deceit. Then the Green Jobs promise was shown to be a fraud. And now this from the Congressional Research service:

“The United States has largest energy reserves on Earth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. The U.S. has 1,321 billion barrels of oil (or barrels of oil equivalent for other sources of energy) when combining its recoverable natural gas, oil and coal reserves. While Russia is a close second with 1,248 billion barrels, other energy producing nations are far behind. No. 3 is Saudi Arabia (543 billion barrels), followed by China (494 billion barrels), Iran (426 billion barrels) and Canada (221 billion barrels.) In addition, the report stated that the United States has tapped into only 13% or 21 billion barrels of its oil reserves, with the other 87% still untouched.”
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=34233

So if we do “Cap and Tax” we will place off limits the very resources necessary to make America successful and effectively make ourselves uncompetitive. This will take us out of the expanding Global Economy and reducing America to third class debtor nation status. Yep that certainly is CHANGE. I’m just not sure we are all ready to sit out in the cold dark night of the “progressive democrat” party’s idea for greening America.

Cheers!

H. Evers

The best thing to do is raise money and start!!! But the reality may take away your excitement.

still haven’t started that business yet?

Finally the big government health care takeover is dead enough that we can get on with some other issues.

If foreign countries stopped their flow of oil into our country, say next week, America would collapse. We need energy independence yesterday, STAT, ASAP. Then work on greener energy while we are independent. If we collapse, there goes our security. We can’t do it backwards, green first then independence; we could be destroyed in process.

Ha Ha, so true! Touché and well done.
So I should have asked when it leads to increased LEGAL innovation.

Optimization is what the private sector does best. Absent any gov’t intervention, business will seek to make the most money possible by adding the most value possible for the capital available. All the gov’t does is set up artificial constraints preventing optimal economic solutions from being viable. Business (legal and illegal) can find ways to optimize around what the gov’t sets up, but why? The idea that the gov’t is just helping the private sector make the best decision possible is ludicrous. There are just too many arrogant politicians who think they know better.